Guide to Communication Evaluations
BIRTH TO PRE-KINDERGARTEN (0-5 years of age)
Language Evaluations
Name_Author_Publisher
Assessing Semantic Skills Through
Everyday Themes (ASSET). 1988.
Authors: Mark Barrett, Linda Bowers,
and Rosemary Huisingh.
Bankson Language Test – 2nd Ed. 1990.
Author: Nicholas W. Bankson.
Use for SL
Eligibility
Test Description/
Behaviors or Skills Assessed
Yes
An assessment of receptive and expressive
semantic /vocabulary skills.
Yes
A measure of psycholinguistic skills. Assesses
semantics, morphological/syntactical rules,
and pragmatics.
A developmental inventory which assess the
following areas: Personal-Social, Adaptive,
Motor, Communication, and Cognitive. May
be used for screening, diagnosis, evaluation,
and program development.
Assess basic concept knowledge important
for early school achievement.
Battelle Developmental Inventory.
Authors: Jean Newborg, John R. Stock,
Linda Wneck, John Guidubaldi, John
Svinicki.
No
Boehm Test of Basic Concepts-3
Preschool Version. 1999. Author: Ann E.
Boehm.
Bracken Basic Concept Scale Screening
Tests. 1984. Author: Bruce A. Bracken
Yes
No
Assesses basic concept knowledge.
Carrow Elicited Language Inventory
(CELI). 1974. Author: Elizabeth CarrowWoolfolk.
Yes
Evaluates a child’s imitation of a variety of
syntactic/grammatical structures.
Clinical Evaluation of Language
Fundamentals – Preschool (CELF-P).
1992. Authors: Elisabeth H. Wiig,
Wayne Secord, and Eleanor Semel.
Yes
An evaluation of receptive and expressive
language. Subtests are: Basic Concepts,
Sentence Structure, Word Structure,
Formulating Labels, Recalling Sentences in
Context, and Linguistic Concepts.
Scores Provided
Age range
Provides developmental age
equivalents, percentile
rankings and standard
scores.
Percentile rankings and
standard scores are
reported.
Provides developmental age
equivalents, percentile
rankings and standard
scores.
3:0-9:11
Provides percentile scores
stratified by 6-month age
bands.
Provides developmental age
equivalents, percentile
rankings and standard
scores.
Provides percentile
rankings, standard scores,
and age equivalency
scores.
Provides standard scores,
age equivalents and
percentile rankings.
3:0-6:11
Birth to 8
3:0-5:11
5:0-10:0
3:0-7:11
3:0-6:11
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Name_Author_Publisher
Communication and Symbolic Behavior
Scales (CSBS). 1992. Author: Amy Miller
Wetherby and Barry Prizant.
Expressive One-Word Picture
Vocabulary Test – Revised (EOWPVT-R).
1990. Author: Morrison F. Gardner
Use for SL
Eligibility
Test Description/
Behaviors or Skills Assessed
Scores Provided
Age range
See MN
eligibility
criteria,
Subp. 4, B4
Yes
Evaluates and provides a profile of
communication, social-affective, and
symbolic functioning.
Normed edition to be
released.
An evaluation of expressive vocabulary
development.
Provides developmental age
equivalents, percentile
rankings and standard
scores.
Results are presented as a
checklist of skills.
0:8-2:0
Developmental
0:9-6:0
Chronological
2:0-11:11
Functional Communication Profile.
Author: Larry I. Kleiman.
See MN
eligibility
criteria,
Subp. 4, B4
Kaufman Survey of Early Academic and
Language Skills (KSEALS). 1993.
Authors: Alan S. Kaufman and Nadeen
L. Kaufman.
MacArthur Communication Development
Inventories. 1993. Authors: L. Fenson,
P. S. Dale, J. S. Reznick, D. Thal, E.
Bates, J. P. Hartung, S. Pethick, and J.
S. Reilly.
Mullen Scales of Early Learning. 1995.
Author: Eileen M. Mullen
No
Oral and Written Language Scales
(OWLS): Listening Comprehension and
Oral Expression Scales. 1995. Author:
Elizabeth Carrow-Woodfolk.
Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, 3rd Ed
(PPVT-3). 1997. Authors: Lloyd M. Dunn
and Leota M. Dunn.
Preschool Language Scale – 3 (PLS-3).
1992. Authors: Irla Lee Zimmerman,
Violette G. Steiner, and Roberta Evatt
An assessment of a variety of domains
related to communication, (sensory/motor,
receptive/expressive communication,
pragmatics, voice, fluency, attention, oral
and nonoral communication).
A measure of receptive and expressive
language, articulation and preacademic skills.
3:0 to adult.
Standard scores, percentile
ranks, and age equivalents
are presented.
3:0-6:11
No
An inventory completed by parents that
reports early communication development
through words and gestures (Infant form)
and words and sentences (Toddler form).
Percentile rankings based
on fitted scores are
provided.
0:8-2:6
No
Measures expressive and receptive language
development, gross and fine motor skills,
and visual reception skills.
Birth-5:6
Yes
Evaluates the following areas: semantic,
syntactic, pragmatic skills as well as
supralinguistics (“higher order thinking).
Yes
An assessment of single-word receptive
vocabulary.
Yes
Assesses receptive language and expressive
language with items that evaluate
prelinguistic communication (e.g., joint
Provides provides percentile
ranks, age equivalent
scores, and standard
scores.
Standard scores (age-based
and grade-based), ageequivalents, and percentile
ranks, are reported.
Provides standard scores,
percentile ranks, and age
equivalent scores.
Provides developmental age
equivalents, percentile
rankings and standard
2
3:0-21
2:6-90+
Birth-6:11
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Name_Author_Publisher
Use for SL
Eligibility
Pond.
Receptive Expressive Emergent
Language Test-2nd ed. (REEL-2).1991.
Authors: Kenneth Bzoch and Richard
League.
Receptive One-Word Picture Vocabulary
Test (ROWPVT). 1985. Author: Morrison
F. Gardner
No
Test Description/
Behaviors or Skills Assessed
focus, use of gesture) to linguistic
communication (vocabulary, syntax,
concepts, and early reasoning skills).
An assessment using parent interview that
provides a multidimensional analysis of
emergent language.
Yes
Assesses receptive vocabulary development.
Rossetti Infant-Toddler Language Scale.
1990. Author: Louis Rossetti.
See MN
eligibility
criteria,
Subp. 4, B4
SCAN-C: Test for Auditory Processing
Disorders in Children - Revised. 1999.
Author: Robert W. Keith.
Sequenced Inventory of Communication
Development-Revised (SICD-R). 1984.
Authors: Donna Lee Hedrick, Elizabeth
M. Prather, and Annette R. Tobin.
Structured Photographic Expressive
Language Test – Preschool (SPELT-P).
1983. Author: Janet D. Kresheck.
Structured Photographic Expressive
Language Test – II (SPELT-II). 1983;
manual update 1995. Author: Janet D.
Kresheck.
Test for Examining Expressive
Morphology (TEEM). 1983. Authors:
Kenneth G. Shipley, Terry A. Stone, and
Marlene B. Sue.
No
A development checklist of communication in
the following areas: Interaction-Attachment,
Pragmatics, Gesture, Play, Language
Comprehension, and Language Expression.
Responses may be obtained through
parent/caregiver report, examiner
observation, or examiner elicitation.
A test for processing of sound in a variety of
conditions. Designed to help rule out central
auditory processing disorders and ADHD.
Assesses early communication development
in receptive language and expressive
language.
Yes
Scores Provided
Age range
scores.
Provides an Expressive
Language Age, Receptive
Language Age, and a
Combined Language Age.
Provides developmental age
equivalents, percentile
rankings and standard
scores.
Provides language age
scores in all areas assessed.
Birth to 3
2:0-11:11
Birth-3
Reports standard scores,
and percentile ranks.
5:0-11
Provides standardized
language age scores.
4-48 months
Yes
Evaluates early morphological and syntactic
development.
Provides percentile rankings
and standard scores.
3:0-5:11
Yes
Evaluates early morphological and syntactic
development.
Standard scores, percentile
ranks, and age equivalent
scores may be obtained.
4:0-9:5
Yes
Assesses expressive morphology.
Criterion-referenced score.
Means and standard
deviations reported.
3:0-8:0
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Use for SL
Eligibility
Test Description/
Behaviors or Skills Assessed
Test for Auditory Comprehension of
Language – 3rd Ed (TACL-3). Author:
Elizabeth Carrow-Woolfolk.
Yes
Assesses auditory comprehension of word
classes, word relations, grammatical
morphemes and elaborated sentences.
Test of Auditory-Perceptual Skills –
Revised (TAPS-R). 1996. Author:
Morrison F. Gardner.
Yes
A measure of auditory skills including
memory, interpretation of directions,
discrimination, and reasoning.
Test of Auditory Reasoning and
Processing Skills (TARPS). 1993. Author:
Morrison F. Gardner.
Test of Early Language Development –
3rd Edition (TELD—3). 1999. Authors:
Wayne P. Hreski, D. Kim Reid, Donald
D. Hammill
Test of Language Development-Primary,
3rd Ed. (TOLD-P:3). 1997. Authors:
Phyllis L. Newcomer and Donald D.
Hammill.
Yes
Evaluates ability to make sense and respond
auditorily.
Yes
An early language test that evaluates
receptive, expressive, and overall spoken
language.
Yes
Test of Pragmatic Skills – Revised Ed.
(Out of print). Author: Brian B.
Shulman, Ph.D.
Token Test for Children. 1978. Author:
Frank DiSimoni.
Yes
Assesses spoken language in the following
subtests: Picture Vocabulary, Relational
Vocabulary, Oral Vocabulary, Grammatic
Understanding, Setnence Imitation,
Grammatical Completion, Word
Discrimination, Word Articulation, and
Phonemic Analysis.
Assesses conversational intent through a
variety of categories.
Name_Author_Publisher
Yes
An assessment of a child’s ability to follow
spoken directions of increasing length and
complexity using tokens of different colors,
shapes and sizes.
4
Scores Provided
Age range
Provides developmental age
equivalents, percentile
rankings and standard
scores.
Provides auditory
perceptual age equivalents,
percentile rankings and
standard scores.
Provides percentile
rankings, age equivalency,
and standard scores.
Provides developmental age
equivalents, percentile
rankings and standard
scores.
Results are reported as
developmental age
equivalents, percentile
rankings and standard
scores.
3:0-9:11
Provides standard scores
and percentile ranks.
3:0-8:11
Standard scores are
provided.
3:0-12:6
4:0-12:0
5:0-14:0
2:0-7:11
4:0-8:11
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BIRTH TO PRE-KINDERGARTEN (0-5 years of age)
Articulation/Phonology Evaluations
Use for
Eligibility
Test Description/
Behaviors or Skills Assessed
Assessment of Phonological Processes –
Revised (APP-R). 1986. Author: Barbara
Williams Hodson.
Arizona Articulation Proficiency Scale-2nd
Ed. (AAPS-2). Revised 1986. Authors:
Janet Barker Fudala and William M.
Reynolds.
Bankson-Bernthal Test of Phonology
(BBTOP). 1990. Authors: Nicholas W.
Bankson and John E. Bernthal.
No
Evaluates phonological processes used by
children.
Yes
Evaluates articulation proficiency. Provides
description of intelligibility and severity of
misarticulations.
Yes
Goldman-Fristoe Test of Articulation –
2nd Ed. (G-FTA-2). Forthcoming.
Authors: Ronald Goldman and Macalyne
Fristoe.
Kaufman Speech Praxis Test for
Children (KSPT). 1995. Author: Nancy
Kaufman.
Yes
Assesses phoneme use in words.
Standardized scores are provided for Word
Inventory (words correctly articulated),
Consonant Inventory (consonants correctly
articulated), and Phonological Process
Inventory (phonological processes used).
Evaluation of speech sound use in all
positions of words.
Yes
Assesses for the presence of apraxia
(dyspraxia) of speech. Identifies the level at
which speech accuracy breaks down.
Khan-Lewis Phonological Analysis
(KLPA). 1986. Authors: Linda Khan and
Nancy Lewis.
Photo Articulation Test-3rd Ed (PAT-3).
1997. Authors: Barbara A. Lippke,
Stanley E. Dickey, John W. Selmar, and
Anton L. Soder.
Structured Photographic Articulation
No
Evaluates phonological process use in young
children’s speech.
Yes
An assessment of articulation errors.
Yes
An assessment of sound use in words.
Name_Author_Publisher
Scores Provided
Age range
Provides number and
percentage of occurrence
scores.
Provides developmental age
equivalents, percentile
rankings and standard
scores.
Percentile rankings and
standard scores are
reported.
3:0-12:0
Age-based standard scores
are available with separate
gender norms.
2.0-21:0
Provides developmental age
equivalents, percentile
rankings and standard
scores.
Provides percentile
rankings, ratings, and age
equivalent scores.
Standard scores, percentile
rankings, and age
equivalents are provided.
2:0-5:11
Provides percentile ranks
1:6 to 13:11
3:0-9:11
2:0-5:11
3:0-8:11
3:0-9:0
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Name_Author_Publisher
Test featuring Dudsberry: Articulation
and Phonological Assessment (SPAT-D).
1993. Authors: Janet D. Kresheck and
Patricia J. Tattersall.
Templin-Darley Test of Articulation- 2nd
Ed. 1969. Authors: Mildren C. Templin
and Fredric L. Darley.
Test of Phonological Awareness. 1994.
Authors: Joseph K. Torgeson and Brian
R. Bryant.
Use for SL
Eligibility
Test Description/
Behaviors or Skills Assessed
Scores Provided
Age range
and standard scores.
Yes
No
Evaluates articulation errors. Includes the
Iowa Pressure Articulation subtest, as well as
diagnostic tests for /r/, /l/, and /s/ clusters.
A test of children’s awareness of phonemes
in words.
6
3:0-8:0
Percentile ranks and
standard scores are
provided.
Kindergarten-2nd
grade
Guide to Communication Evaluations
ELEMENTARY (5-11 years of age)
Language Evaluations
Name_Author_Publisher
Assessing Semantic Skills Through
Everyday Themes (ASSET). 1988.
Authors: Mark Barrett, Linda Bowers,
and Rosemary Huisingh.
Bankson Language Test – 2nd Ed. 1990.
Author: Nicholas W. Bankson.
Use for
Eligibility
Test Description/
Behaviors or Skills Assessed
Yes
An assessment of receptive and expressive
semantic /vocabulary skills.
Yes
A measure of psycholinguistic skills. Assesses
semantics, morphological/syntactical rules,
and pragmatics.
Assess basic concept knowledge important
for early school achievement.
Assesses basic concept knowledge.
Boehm Test of Basic Concepts-3. 1999.
Author: Ann E. Boehm.
Bracken Basic Concept Scale - Revised.
1998. Author: Bruce A. Bracken
Yes
Carrow Elicited Language Inventory
(CELI). 1974. Author: Elizabeth CarrowWoolfolk.
Yes
Evaluates a child’s imitation of a variety of
syntactic/grammatical structures.
Clinical Evaluation of Language
Fundamentals – 3rd Ed. (CELF-3). 1995.
Authors: Elisabeth H. Wiig, Wayne
Secord, and Eleanor Semel.
Yes
Expressive One-Word Picture
Vocabulary Test – Revised (EOWPVT-R).
1990. Author: Morrison F. Gardner
Yes
An evaluation of receptive and expressive
language. Subtests are: Sentence Structure,
Word Structure, Concepts and Directions,
Formulated Sentences, Sentence Assembly,
Semantic Relationships, Recalling Sentences,
Word Classes, Word Associations, Listening
to Paragraphs, and Rapid Automatic Naming.
An evaluation of expressive vocabulary
development.
Yes
Scores Provided
Age range
Provides developmental age
equivalents, percentile
rankings and standard
scores.
Percentile rankings and
standard scores are
reported.
Percentile scores are
provided.
Results are reported as
standard scores, percentile
ranks, and age equivalents.
Provides percentile
rankings, standard scores,
and age equivalency
scores.
Provides standard scores,
percentile ranks, and age
equivalent scores.
3:0-9:11
Results are reported as
developmental age
equivalents, percentile
rankings, and standard
scores.
3:0-6:11
Kindergarten to
2nd grade
2:6-8
3:0-7:11
6:0-21:11
2:0-11:11
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Use for SL
Eligibility
Test Description/
Behaviors or Skills Assessed
Functional Communication Profile.
Author: Larry I. Kleiman.
See MN
eligibility
criteria,
Subp. 4, B4
Goldman-Fristoe-Woodcock Test of
Auditory Discrimination (G-F-W TAD).
1970. Authors: Ronald Goldman,
Macalyne Fristoe, and Richard W.
Woodcock.
Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities
– 3rd Ed. (ITPA-3). 2001. Authors:
Donald D. Hammill, Nancy Mather, and
Rhia Roberts.
Language Processing Test-Revised
(LPT-R). 1995. Authors: Gail J. Richard
and Mary Anne Hanner.
Yes
An assessment of a variety of domains
related to communication, (sensory/motor,
receptive/expressive communication,
pragmatics, voice, fluency, attention, oral
and nonoral communication).
Evaluates sound discrimination in quiet and
noise.
Name_Author_Publisher
See MN
eligibility
criteria,
Subp. 4, B4
Yes
The Listening Test. 1992. Authors: Mark
Barrett, Rosemary Huisingh, Llinda
Bowers, Carolyn LoGiudice, and Jane
Orman.
Yes
Oral and Written Language Scales
(OWLS): Listening Comprehension and
Oral Expression Scales. 1995. Author:
Elizabeth Carrow-Woodfolk.
Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, 3rd Ed
(PPVT-3). 1997. Authors: Lloyd M. Dunn
and Leota M. Dunn.
Receptive One-Word Picture Vocabulary
Test (ROWPVT). 1985. Author: Morrison
Yes
Scores Provided
Age range
Results are presented as a
checklist of skills.
3:0 to adult.
Provides standard scores
and percentile ranks.
3:6-70+
Assesses spoken and written language.
Composite scores.
5:0-12
An assessment of the ability to comprehend
and respond to language in the following
areas: Associations, Categorization,
Similarities, Differences, Multiple Meanings,
and Attributes.
Assesses listening skills judged important for
classroom performance. Requires the student
to pay attention to what is heard, to listen
with a purpose, to remember and think
about it, and to express answers verbally.
Subtests include: Main Ideas, Details,
Concepts, Reasoning, and Story
Comprehension.
Evaluates the following areas: semantic,
syntactic, pragmatic skills as well as
supralinguistics (“higher order thinking).
Standard scores, age
equivalency, and percentile
ranks are provided.
5:0-11:11
Provides age-equivalent
scores, percentile norms,
and standard scores (based
on means and standard
deviations).
6:0-11:11
Standard scores (age-based
and grade-based), ageequivalents, and percentile
ranks, are reported.
Provides standard scores,
percentile ranks, and age
equivalent scores.
Provides developmental age
equivalents, percentile
3:0-21
Yes
An assessment of single-word receptive
vocabulary.
Yes
Assesses receptive vocabulary development.
8
2:6-90+
2:0-11:11
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Name_Author_Publisher
Use for SL
Eligibility
Test Description/
Behaviors or Skills Assessed
F. Gardner
SCAN-C: Test for Auditory Processing
Disorders in Children - Revised. 1999.
Author: Robert W. Keith.
Structured Photographic Expressive
Language Test – II (SPELT-II). 1983;
manual update 1995. Author: Janet D.
Kresheck.
Test for Auditory Comprehension of
Language – 3rd Ed (TACL-3). Author:
Elizabeth Carrow-Woolfolk.
No
Yes
A test for processing of sound in a variety of
conditions. Designed to help rule out central
auditory processing disorders and ADHD.
Evaluates early morphological and syntactic
development.
Yes
Assesses auditory comprehension of word
classes, word relations, grammatical
morphemes and elaborated sentences.
Test for Examining Expressive
Morphology (TEEM). 1983. Authors:
Kenneth G. Shipley, Terry A. Stone, and
Marlene B. Sue.
Test of Auditory-Perceptual Skills –
Revised (TAPS-R). 1996. Author:
Morrison F. Gardner.
See MN
eligibility
criteria,
Subp. 4, B4
Yes
Assesses expressive morphology.
Test of Auditory Reasoning and
Processing Skills (TARPS). 1993. Author:
Morrison F. Gardner.
Test of Language CompetenceExpanded Edition (TLC-Expanded).
1989. Authors: Elisabeth H. Wiig and
Wayne Secord.
Test of Language DevelopmentIntermediate, 3rd Ed. (TOLD I:3). 1997.
Authors: Donald D. Hammill and Phyllis
L. Newcomer.
Test of Language Development-Primary,
3rd Ed. (TOLD-P:3). 1997. Authors:
Phyllis L. Newcomer and Donald D.
Hammill.
Yes
Evaluates ability to make sense of and
respond auditorily.
Yes
Examines metalinguistic strategies in
semantics, syntax, and pragmatics.
Yes
Assesses spoken language in the following
subtests: generals, malapropisms, picture
vocabulary, sentence combining, word
ordering, and grammatic comprehension.
Assesses spoken language in the following
subtests: Picture Vocabulary, Relational
Vocabulary, Oral Vocabulary, Grammatic
Understanding, Sentence Imitation,
Yes
A measure of auditory skills including
memory, interpretation of directions,
discrimination, and reasoning.
9
Scores Provided
rankings, and standard
scores.
Reports standard scores,
and percentile ranks.
Age range
5:0-11
Standard scores, percentile
ranks, and age equivalent
scores may be obtained.
4:0-9:5
Developmental age
equivalents, percentile
rankings, and standard
scores are provided.
Criterion-referenced score.
Means and standard
deviations reported.
3:0-9:11
Standard scores, percentile
rankings, and age
equivalent scores are
provided.
Provides percentile
rankings, age equivalency,
and standard scores.
Provides standard scores,
percentile ranks, and
overall age equivalent
score.
Reports results as standard
scores, percentile ranks,
and age equivalents.
4:0-12:0
Reports results as standard
scores, percentile ranks,
and age equivalents.
3:0-8:0
5:0-14:0
5:0-18:11
8:0-12:11
4:0-8:11
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Name_Author_Publisher
Test of Pragmatic Language (TOPL).
1992. Authors: Diana Phelps-Terasaki
and Trisha Phelps-Gunn.
Test of Pragmatic Skills – Revised Ed.
(Out of print). Author: Brian B.
Shulman, Ph.D.
Test of Problem Solving-Elementary
Test, Revised (TOPS-R). 1994. Authors:
Linda Bowers, Mark Barrett, Rosemary
Huisingh, Jane Orman, and Carolyn
LoGiudice.
Test of Word Finding – 2nd Ed. (TWF-2).
2000. Author: Diane J. German.
Test of Word Finding in Discourse
(TWFD). 1991. Author: Diane J.
German.
Test of Word Knowledge (TOWK). 1992.
Authors: Elisabeth H. Wiig and Wayne
A. Secord.
Use for SL
Eligibility
See MN
eligibility
criteria,
Subp. 4, B4
Yes
Test Description/
Behaviors or Skills Assessed
Grammatical Completion, Word
Discrimination, Word Articulation, and
Phonemic Analysis.
Evaluates pragmatics within six
subcomponents: physical setting, audience,
topic, purpose (speech acts), visual-gestural
cues, and abstraction.
Assesses conversational intent through a
variety of categories.
Scores Provided
Age range
Norms are provided.
5-0-13:11
Provides standard scores
and percentile ranks.
3:0-8:11
Yes
Evaluates language-based critical thinking
and problem solving using logic and
experience.
Results are reported as
standard scores, percentile
ranks, and age equivalency
scores.
6:0-11:11
Yes
An evaluation of word finding, examines
speed and accuracy in word finding.
Assesses word finding in storytelling.
Includes Productivity Index and Word
Finding Behaviors Index.
An evaluation of semantic/lexical
development. Includes the following
subtests: Expressive Vocabulary, Word
Definitions, Receptive Vocabulary, Word
Opposites, Synonyms, Multiple Contexts,
Figurative Language, Conjunctions and
Transition Words.
An assessment of a child’s ability to follow
spoken directions of increasing length and
complexity using tokens of different colors,
shapes and sizes.
Assessment of expressive vocabulary and
semantics. Subtests include: Associations,
Antonyms, Synonyms, Definitions, Semantic
Absurdities, and Multiple Definitions.
Provides standard scores
and percentile ranks.
Percentile ranks and
standard scores are
reported.
Standard scores, age
equivalents, and percentile
ranks are available.
4:0-12:11
Yes
Yes
Token Test for Children (TTFC). 1978.
Author: Frank DiSimoni.
Yes
The WORD Test-Elementary-Revised.
1990. Authors: Rosemary Huisingh,
Mark Barrett, Linda Bowers, Carolyn
LoGiudice, and Jane Orman.
Yes
10
6:6-12:11
5:0-17:11
Standard scores are
provided.
3:0-12:6
Age-equivalents, percentile
norms, and standard scores
are available.
7:0-11:11
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ELEMENTARY (5-11 years of age)
Articulation/Phonology/Oral Motor Evaluations
Use for
Eligibility
Test Description/
Behaviors or Skills Assessed
Arizona Articulation Proficiency Scale-2nd
Ed. (AAPS-2). Revised 1986. Authors:
Janet Barker Fudala and William M.
Reynolds.
Yes
Evaluates articulation proficiency. Provides
description of intelligibility and severity of
misarticulations.
Assessment of Phonological Processes –
Revised (APP-R). 1986. Author: Barbara
Williams Hodson.
Bankson-Bernthan Test of Phonology
(BBTOP). 1990. Authors: Nicholas W.
Bankson and John E. Bernthal.
No
Evaluates phonological processes used by
children.
Yes
Goldman-Fristoe Test of Articulation –
2nd Ed. (G-FTA-2). Forthcoming.
Authors: Ronald Goldman and Macalyne
Fristoe.
Khan-Lewis Phonological Analysis
(KLPA). 1986. Authors: Linda Khan and
Nancy Lewis.
Oral Speech Mechanism Screening
Examination-Revised (OSMSE-R). 1987.
Authors: Kenneth O. St. Louis and
Dennis M. Ruscello.
Photo Articulation Test-3rd Ed. 1997.
Authors: Barbara A. Lippke, Stanley E.
Dickey, John W. Selmar, and Anton L.
Soder.
Yes
Assesses phoneme use in words.
Standardized scores are provided for Word
Inventory (words correctly articulated),
Consonant Inventory (consonants correctly
articulated), and Phonological Process
Inventory (phonological processes used).
Evaluation of speech sound use in all
positions of words.
Name_Author_Publisher
No
Evaluates phonological process use in young
children’s speech.
No
An evaluation of structures (lips, tongue,
jaw, teeth, hard and soft palate, pharynx)
and functions velopharyngeal function,
breathing and diadochokinetic rates.
An assessment of articulation errors.
Yes
Scores Provided
Age range
Provides developmental age
equivalents, percentile
rankings and standard
scores (based on means
and standard deviations).
Provides number and
percentage of occurrence
scores.
Standard scores, and
percentile rank scores are
available.
1:6 to 13:11
3:0-12:0
3:0-9:11
Age-based standard scores
are now available with
separate gender norms.
2.0-21:0
Provides percentile
rankings, and age
equivalent scores.
Screening cut-off scores
based on pass/fail are
provided.
2:0-5:11
Standard scores, percentile
rankings, and age
equivalents are reported.
3:0-8:11
5:0-70+
GUIDE TO COMMUNICATION EVALUATIONS
Name_Author_Publisher
Use for SL
Eligibility
Test Description/
Behaviors or Skills Assessed
Yes
An assessment of sound use in words.
Yes
Evaluates articulation errors. Includes the
Iowa Pressure Articulation subtest, as well as
diagnostic tests for /r/, /l/, and /s/ clusters.
A test of children’s awareness of phonemes
in words.
Structured Photographic Articulation
Test featuring Dudsberry: Articulation
and Phonological Assessment. 1993.
Authors: Janet D. Kresheck and Patricia
J. Tattersall.
Templin-Darley Test of Articulation- 2nd
Ed. 1969. Authors: Mildren C. Templin
and Fredric L. Darley.
Test of Phonological Awareness
No
Test of Oral Structures and Functions
No
An assessment of oral structures, nonverbal
and verbal oral functioning.
12
Scores Provided
Age range
Provides standard scores,
percentile rankings, and
age equivalent scores.
3:0-9:0
3:0-8:0
Percentile ranks and
standard scores are
provided.
Objective rating scale.
Kindergarten-2nd
grade
7:0-80+
Guide to Communication Evaluations
SECONDARY (12 years to adult)
Name_Author_Publisher
Adapted Sequenced Inventory of
Communication Development for
Adolescents and Adults with Severe
Handicaps (A-SICD). 1989. Author:
Sandra E. McClennen.
Adolescent Language Screening Test
(ALST). 1984. Authors: Denise L.
Morgan and Arthur M. Guilford.
Clinical Evaluation of Language
Fundamentals – 3rd Ed. (CELF-3). 1995.
Authors: Elisabeth H. Wiig, Wayne
Secord, and Eleanor Semel.
Comprehensive Receptive and
Expressive Vocabulary Test – 2nd ed.
(CREVT-2). 2002. Authors: Gerald
Wallace and Donald D. Hammill.
Functional Communication Profile.
Author: Larry I. Kleiman.
Fullerton Language Test for Adolescents
–2nd ed (FLTA-2). 1986. Author: Arden
R. Thorum.
Use for
Eligibility
Test Description/
Behaviors or Skills Assessed
See MN
eligibility
criteria,
Subp. 4, B4
Test includes assessment of expressive and
receptive communication. Results may be
used to plan appropriate and functional
intervention for severely handicapped
students.
Screens adolescent speech and language.
Language screening examines form, content
and use.
An evaluation of receptive and expressive
language. Subtests are: Sentence Structure,
Word Structure, Concepts and Directions,
Formulated Sentences, Sentence Assembly,
Semantic Relationships, Recalling Sentences,
Word Classes, Word Associations, Listening
to Paragraphs, and Rapid Automatic Naming.
Measures receptive and expressive
vocabulary.
No
Yes
Yes
See MN
eligibility
criteria,
Subp. 4, B4
Yes
An assessment of a variety of domains
related to communication, (sensory/motor,
receptive/expressive communication,
pragmatics, voice, fluency, attention, oral
and nonoral communication).
Evaluates receptive and expressive language
in the following subtest areas: Auditory
Synthesis, Morphology Competency, Oral
Commands, Convergent Production,
Divergent Production, Syllabication,
Grammatic Competency, and Idioms.
Scores Provided
Age range
Results are gathered
through skills profiles and
checklists.
16:0-55
Provides standard scores,
percentile ranks, and age
equivalent scores.
6:0-21:11
Standard scores, percentile
ranks, and age equivalents
are reported.
4:0-89:11
Results are presented as a
checklist of skills.
3:0 to adult.
Provides standard scores,
raw scores and standard
deviations.
11:0 to adult
GUIDE TO COMMUNICATION EVALUATIONS
Name_Author_Publisher
Goldman-Fristoe-Woodcock Test of
Auditory Discrimination (G-F-W TAD).
1970. Authors: Ronald Goldman,
Macalyne Fristoe, and Richard W.
Woodcock.
Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, 3rd Ed
(PPVT-3). 1997. Authors: Lloyd M. Dunn
and Leota M. Dunn.
Screening Test of Adolescent Language
– Revised ed. (STAL-R). 1980. Authors:
Elizabeth M. Prather, Sheila Van Ausdal
Breecher, Marimyn Lee Stafford, and
Elizabeth Matthews Wallace.
Test of Adolescent and Adult Language
–3rd ed. (TOAL-3). 1994. Authors:
Donald D. Hammill, Virginia L. Brown,
Stephen C. Larsen, and J. Lee
Wiederholt.
Test of Adolescent/Adult Word Finding.
1991. Author: Diane J. German.
Use for SL
Eligibility
Test Description/
Behaviors or Skills Assessed
Scores Provided
Age range
Yes
Evaluates sound discrimination in quiet and
noise.
Provides standard scores
and percentile ranks.
3:6-70+
Yes
An assessment of single-word receptive
vocabulary.
Provides standard scores,
percentile ranks, and age
equivalent scores.
2:6-90+
No
Screening test for receptive and expressive
language.
11:0-18
Yes
Evaluates language in ten areas: Listening,
Speaking, Reading, Writing, Spoken
Language, Written Language, Vocabulary,
Grammar, Receptive Language, and
Expressive Language.
This assessment examines both speed and
accuracy of word finding, has multiple
naming sections and includes words from
different semantic and syntactic categories.
12:0-24:11
Yes
14
Results are reported as
standard scores, precentile
ranks, and grade standards.
12:0-80
Guide to Communication Evaluations
ALL AGES
Fluency Evaluations
Name_Author_Publisher
Assessment of Stuttering Behaviors.
1990. Author: Dennis Tanner.
Stuttering Prediction Instrument for
Young Children (SPI). 1981. Author:
Glyndon D. Riley.
Stuttering Severity Instrument for
Children and Adults-3rd Ed. (SSI-3).
1994. Author: Glyndon D. Riley.
Use for
Eligibility
Test Description/
Behaviors or Skills Assessed
Yes
Determines whether the student should
receive treatment for stuttering.
Evaluates type and frequency of stuttered
words. Examines history of dysfluency,
severity and likelihood of chronicity.
Assesses frequency and duration of
stuttering, and physical concomitants.
Yes
Yes
Scores Provided
Age range
4:0-10:0
3:0-8:11
Percentiles, stanines, and
severity ratings are
provided.
Scores are calculated for
frequency, duration,
physical concomitants, and
overall severity.
9:0-80+
Scores Provided
Age range
ALL AGES
Voice Evaluations
Name_Author_Publisher
Systematic Assessment of Voice (SAV).
1990. Author: Kenneth Shipley.
Voice Assessment Protocol for Children
and Adults (VAP). 1987. Author:
Rebekah H. Pindzola..
The Voice Index. 1996. Authors: Robert
G. Johnston, and Forrest G. Umberger.
Use for
Eligibility
Test Description/
Behaviors or Skills Assessed
Yes
Evaluates functional and organic voice
disorders.
Assesses pitch, loudness, quality, breath
features, and speech rate/rhythm.
Yes
Yes
An evaluation of air support, voicing, voice,
devoice, pitch, pitch in speech, intensity,
5:0-80+
Criterion referenced test.
Uses a grid marking
system.
Child, adult
5:0 to adult
GUIDE TO COMMUNICATION EVALUATIONS
Name_Author_Publisher
Use for SL
Eligibility
Test Description/
Behaviors or Skills Assessed
intensity in speech, resonance and
articulation.
16
Scores Provided
Age range